Day 4 – the church of saint aba hor

This morning started at 8 am. We were greeted outside the hotel by a bus carrying 6 school children who attend a school in Cairo. They were all in the scout movement and in minya to visit their sister school with us.
The bus journey to the church became a songathon between us and the children. They taught us their school cheer and some of their songs and we reciprocated when we could get a word in edgeways with ging gang goolie, everywhere we go, animal fair and pizza hut.
The church itself was built in to a cave so the Christians could hide from the Romans.
The rajac language school provided whole new levels of entertainment. We had another singing session when we arrived, this time adellweis and we taught the claps that accompany the song, attended a disco with the kindergarten and mickey mouse, rode horses and ran races with the children.
Lunch was a local meal eaten by vilagers, fatia michaldet which I can best describe as a tortilla shaped croissant that weighed enough to make a stack quite hard to lift. This was dipped in bowls of honey, molasses, or with cheese and was provided for us as a ‘public meal’ which we shared with some of the girls, teachers and our guides and Ibhissam.
We were allowed to walk to the association today and the journey home was 2 trucks; sadly we weren’t allowed to sit in the back.
Training was problem solving and team building. The school children accompanied us, which made the training room even more cramped than usual. We managed to occupy the younger ones with balloons, a tried and tested method in my brownie unit!
Dinner on our own last night was accompanied by our first cockroach: Hayley’s jumping up on the bed was comical!